Reception
Kine Weekly wrote: "Hard-boiled melodrama. ... The leading characters take it as well as dish it out; night club divertissement punctuates the rough stuff; and its salutary and spectacular climax is clear proof that crime doesn't pay. Good British 'second'." [4]
Picturegoer wrote: "When it comes to crowding a quart into a pint pot, this melodrama wants a bit of beating. Bandits raid a safe, hold an innocent girl hostage, commit murders and are overtaken by retribution, in under the hour." [5]
In British Sound Films David Quinlan wrote: "Second-feature is better than it sounds, holds the attention." [6]
In The British 'B' Film, Chibnall and McFarlane wrote that it was "a film which takes the trouble to motivate its crooks and doesn't shirk a bleak ending." [2]
In The Radio Times Guide to Films David Parkinson gave the film 1/5 stars, writing: "As with many other crime capers of the late 1950s, this gives the impression of being a routine TV episode that has had a bit of money thrown at it. Given the utterly misleading title of The Pleasure Lovers in the USA, this is a sordid little tale about a gang of safe-crackers who are forced to kill a night watchman and kidnap his daughter to make good their escape. Journeyman director Charles Saunders and his willing cast are left high and dry by Brock Williams's desperate script." [1]
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